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ON NOW MAIN GALLERY: Sloth Pants, Doom Clock, Hand Occluding Face by Anthea Behm (@14a.hamburg ) . Curated by Sally Frater Exhibition: April 22 – May 28, 2022 Reception: May 13, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. . Sloth Pants, Doom Clock, Hand Occluding Face brings together photograms from an ongoing series which began in 2016. Photograms—in their simplest form—are made by placing objects directly onto light sensitive paper and exposing the paper to light. According to some artists and theorists, photograms embody an unmediated reality because they are just light on paper without the medium of the camera. While this is true, it remains the case that no reality is unmediated—the scissors and paper themselves, after all, have histories of labor embedded within them. In her black and white silver-gelatin photograms, Behm harnesses what is usually considered an error in the darkroom—“fogging the paper”—to unleash the color potentials of the paper that are buried under assumptions of process and convention...

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